"It's Only When the Tide Goes Out That You Learn Who Has Been Swimming Naked ..." First there was Charles Ponzi, then Bernie Madoff ... Now there's Paul Stone ...
Swimming Naked! ...
A Farce For Our Financial Times!

Westminster Reference Library, 35 St. Martin's Street, London WC2H 7HP
Based in Leicester Square, at the heart of London's theatre and cinema world, Westminster Reference Library has a collection of some 15,000 books covering the performing arts, a third of which are available to borrow ...

We are a Charity based in the heart of Westminster. We offer funding and support to a wide range of local groups, organisations and individuals, and develop projects that enrich the arts in the community. We work closely with Westminster City Council to ensure our services benefit people living, working or studying in the City of Westminster.

BBC writers room is always on the lookout for fresh, new, talented writers for a changing Britain. When we find them, we do everything we can to get their voice heard and their work produced for BBC film, TV and radio - for drama, comedy, and children's programmes. If you have talent, an original voice, and stories to tell, then BBC writers room wants to know about you

Doollee is an online database of playwrights and theatre plays. As an ongoing project we aim to list every play written or produced in English since 1956, the year John Osborne's seminal play Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court in London. As a general rule of thumb, if you are a playwright who has had at least one play published or produced in English since 1956 then you are eligible for inclusion on the site. Doollee will then happily list the details of every other play you have written even if it is unpublished, unproduced, or was written before 1956. We add submitted information to the site daily and all contributions we receive help make this the most meaningful and definitive guide to modern playwrights in the world.

The Drama Association of Wales exists to create opportunities for people to become actively involved in theatre activities which are rewarding, fun and of a high standard. It also houses the largest specialist drama lending library in the world. Most of our membership is based in Wales, but we also have members from across the world.

The Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild (IPSG) is the representative body in Ireland for writers for the stage, screen, radio and digital media. The Guild is an organisation run for and by the writers themselves. Full Membership of the Guild is available to any writer who has been contracted to write for payment in Ireland for the stage, screen, radio or digital media. To encourage new talent, we also have an Associate Membership grade open to aspiring writers. Membership can be applied for and paid online.

The Irish Writers Union (Comhar na Scribhneoiri) offers a model contract for guidance to members, and assists in disputes if, or when, things go wrong. The union acts as a watchdog, on both contracts, and royalty payments, for members, or for their estate. It negotiates with the Arts Councils, both north and south, Bord na Leabhar, and Cle (the publishers association), amongst others, on behalf of writers. Thanks to the union there is now a disputes procedure for writers who feel they have been treated unprofessionally by publishers of their work. The union welcomes applications for membership from established authors and beginners alike. If you are a writer, then you are a writer; established, struggling, or forever hopeful, so join with other writers for the benefit of all.

Do you belong to a writing group? Are you a short story writer, a novelist, a playwright, a poet, a non-fiction writer? Then there's something for you on the NAWG website. Read about our Competitions, our Festival of Writing, and our Link magazine. You can see if there is a writing group in your area. Come inside and meet the people who run this friendly association for everyone who writes. Thanks for visiting!

The Theatres Trust is the National Advisory Public Body for Theatres, protecting theatres for everyone.
We operate nationally in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland promoting the value of theatre buildings and championing their future. The Theatres Trust is the government?s adviser on theatres, provides a range of advisory services, is a statutory consultee on planning applications, and develops the debate on what makes a good theatre.

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain is the trade union representing writers in TV, radio, theatre, books, poetry, film, online and video games. In TV, film, radio and theatre, the Guild is the recognised body for negotiating minimum terms and practice agreements for writers. We campaign and lobby on behalf of all writers - by joining the Guild you can help make our voice even stronger.

theatreSCOTLAND is created by Mark Fisher, theatre critic, editor, feature writer and freelance journalist. Mark Fisher has written about theatre in Scotland since the late-1980s, contributing theatre reviews, interviews, arts features and travel articles to newspapers and magazines in Scotland and all over the world.

Professional readings of new plays. Personal web pages. Networking, friendship and fun. Actors & Writers London (AWL) is London's longest-running professional play-reading forum for actors and writers.

New writing workshops based at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre. The workshops are led by Literary Manager and playwright David Bottomley, (Writers Group Director of the London Playwrights Collective). The Brockley Jack Writers' Workshop is a new, dynamic hub for emerging contemporary theatre writing in South London.

Ever thought about joining a writers' group?
Being a writer can be, by its nature, a fairly solitary existence so being part of a group can be invaluable. As well as the companionship, it is also important to have someone (who isn?t your mammy) with whom you can share your writing, get (honest!) criticism from and bounce ideas off.

Edinburgh Writers meets every week in Spoon on Nicolson Street (just opposite the Festival Theatre). Most people bring something to read and the range, subject matter and style/form, is wide. We've heard poetry, short stories, short pieces, extracts from novels, ideas etc..... and have had discussions over all sorts of things (many even writing related!) including submitting to agents/publishers and dealing with writer's block.

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Graeae is committed to developing and producing new work and writing. We are passionate about performing stories in an accessible way, putting access at the heart of every commission process. From idea to page to stage, the route to integrated access challenges and drives our new work.

The London Comedy Writers is a group of writers, actors and anyone else who staggers into the meeting. Together they are united by their desire to improve on scripts, network and have a good laugh. The meetings held every 2 - 3 weeks usually see a writer bring a 30 minute script to the group which is performed by out talented actors and then the writer receives honest and constructive feedback from those in the group.

The London Playwrights' Collective is a collaborative, supportive and proactive community for writers ... The LPC extends its activities from writers' group and work-in-progress performances to networking events and outreach workshops as well as partnering up with outside theatre companies to create more opportunities for playwrights.

Nabokov is a new writing theatre company dedicated to commissioning, developing and producing backlash theatre - new work that offers an antagonistic response to contemporary agendas, trends and events.

We are a group of actors, writers and directors, formed in November 2007 with the aim of bringing neglected plays to a wider public. Accordingly we present semi-staged script-in-hand readings in North London; also professional development workshops.

North West Playwrights exists to develop and promote new writing for theatre in the North West of England. North West Playwrights is funded by Arts Council England, North West (ACENW) and the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA). Our patrons are Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE & Mike Leigh OBE.

This workshop-style group focuses on writing for performance: play- and screenwriting, radio drama and monologues. A lively group where work is read aloud and then discussed in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. We've been meeting for the past year on the first Monday of the month to hear scenes being read. Occasionally we also have an interim meeting to discuss full length scripts.
So, if you're a writer interested in developing your work, please join us.

Out of Joint is a national and international touring theatre company dedicated to the development and production of new writing. Under the direction of Max Stafford-Clark the company has premiered plays from leading writers including David Hare, Caryl Churchill, Alistair Beaton, April De Angelis, Sebastian Barry and Timberlake Wertenbaker, as well as launching first-time writers such as Mark Ravenhill and Stella Feehily.

Tunde Euba runs our writers' group and writing support network which meets once a month at Oval House.. The group aims to support and develop new writing, to expose the work to an audience, to funders, programmers and actors.
Several of the plays by current members are featured in our First Bites season, our new showcase of script-in-hand performances.

Paines Plough believes the playwright's voice is at the centre of contemporary theatre and works with new and experienced writers. We develop new work with a programme of workshops and readings and we provide the support and inspiration for commissioned writers to push themselves and challenge their craft. We aim to produce the most ambitious and challenging of new theatre writing.

Player-Playwrights is an association of writers and actors who meet on Monday evenings for professional readings of new work before an informed audience. The purpose of the meeting is to allow the writer to see and hear the work in performance and to have it evaluated and discussed, with a view to getting it before the public, whether by production, publication or sale. And it is fun too.

The BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing forum is both a platform for new writing, and a networking event. Created in 2000, the original format selects three ten minute script extracts - feature film, short film, television drama, sitcom or sketch.
Following each performance, the writers receive feedback from the industry co-chair and answer questions from the audience. The evening is rounded off with a Q&A with the event host and a relaxed networking session.

Through our Rogue Writers programme, a monthly evening of new writing at the Canal Cafe theatre, we nurture emerging writers. Every month we provide a stimulus, either a photo or a quotation and invite submissions. Or, if they choose, writers can also submit writing they?ve already started. We pick the four best and produce them using our associate actors and directors.

Scene & Heard is a unique mentoring project that partners the inner-city children of Somers Town, London with volunteer theatre professionals, providing each child who participates with quality one-on-one adult attention and an experience of personal success through the process of writing and performing plays. Scene & Heard currently runs six playwriting and acting courses annually for children aged 9 to 15. Each Scene & Heard course involves approximately 35 theatre professionals. Actors, directors, writers, comedians, designers, composers and technicians all volunteer their time to Scene & Heard to create a unique experience for the children involved in the project.

ScriptTank are a group of writers who meet every fortnight on Wednesday in central London to read, discuss and develop each other's work. Have your screen, stage and radio plays read and workshopped by actors - followed by a valuable feedback session with other writers and other industry professionals.

Whether you're a new writer, established playwright or looking for some invaluable feedback on your script...the Broadway wants you and 10 pages of your script!
Script This... is the bi-monthly new writing event held at the Broadway providing a platform for London's writers, giving them feedback from audiences and an opportunity to see their work developed.

Our purpose is to encourage new work from writers throughout the country; Sussex just happens to be where we started in 1935 . So, Whether you are an established writer or a complete beginner, The Sussex Playwrights' Club could be right for you

Swan Playwrights is a self-organised writers' group catering for writers who want to write for performance. The group welcomes writers of all ages and experience. Existing and past members have written professionally for stage and radio and have pitched for television series.

Talawa has a history of nurturing and collaborating with outstanding writers such as Michael Bhim, Roy Williams, Derek Walcott, Jackie Kay, Trish Cooke and Malorie Blackman.
Our Literary Department is energetically engaged with new writing and supports writers that give voice to the Black British experience. We not only aim to find and develop the best scripts but help build the next generation of diverse writers to create equally diverse British drama.

Tamasha New Writing Course
Tamasha New Writing is Tamasha's pioneering training initiative for eight emerging writers, interested in intracultural theatre practice, who are keen to pursue a career in theatre.

Since our foundation in 2003, the award-winning Ten in a Bed Theatre have built a reputation for exciting and engaging theatre. We are a collaborative group that represents both new and neglected works as vital, urgent and accessible to an increasingly diverse audience.

Founded in April 2008 by local Equity members.
The Script Readers invite talented writers to submit your scripts to our reading panel. The panel assess these submissions and we then invite selected writers to hear their work at one of our monthly sessions. After the reading our members who include actors, writers and directors, share their feedback in an open discussion.

Tinderbox is always delighted to receive uncommissioned scripts. The company has a script panel that will read and feed back on all plays. Tinderbox tries to give appropriate feedback to playwrights whatever experience they may have of writing for the stage.

The Traverse Theatre is Scotland's new writing theatre. From its conception in 1963, it has embraced a spirit of innovation and risk-taking that launched the careers of many of Scotland's best-known writers including John Byrne, David Greig, David Harrower and Liz Lochhead.
It is unique in Scotland in that it fulfils the crucial role of providing the infrastructure, professional support and expertise to ensure the development of a dynamic theatre culture for Scotland. It commissions and develops new plays or adaptations from contemporary playwrights. It produces, on average, six Traverse Theatre Company productions or co-productions per year. It also presents a large number of productions from visiting companies from across the UK. These include new plays, adaptations, dance, physical theatre, puppetry and contemporary music.

Interested in writing for the Woodhouse Players? Then before you pick up your pen, take a quick look at this FAQ to see how new writing works in the group.
What sort of new writing do you put on?
Recently Woodhouse has put on home written plays as part of our Spring triple bill, and our annual Christmas Panto.
The Spring triple bill is three one act plays, which also go to Waltham Forest and Havering drama festivals (we've won the best original play award at both festivals)

Founded in 2000, WRiTEON! is a group of writers, actors and directors producing new dramatic writing in Cambridge. At present, we have over 40 active writing members, a sizeable acting company drawn from the ranks of local professional, amateur and student actors and a mailing list of nearly 400 including members and supporters.

Are you a new writer? Do have a play script you would like to test out in front of a supportive audience that will give honest feedback?
Three new writers have the first twenty minutes of their play performed by professional actors (without scripts) and the audience submit written feedback to the writer.

Yellow Leaf Theatre brings brand new drama right to your doorstep.Yellow Leaf Theatre is becoming established as a producer of high quality, low tech small scale tours. 'New play, older players proves a worthwhile combination ... Yellow Leaf effectively challenges the idea that there's no more than character and half-remembered lines to the mature performer.'

Yorkshire Playwrights members are active in all the dramatic mediums, at every level. Some of our members write for well-known television series like Coronation Street and Eastenders, or have created their own radio or television series. Others, just as important, write for local fringe or amateur theatre companies.
The group's main aims are:
* to encourage playwriting and performance of new plays and other plays by living writers in Yorkshire, and in our part of the North of England;
* to liaise with local theatres and theatre groups and local, regional and network broadcasting organisations;
* to promote understanding of the dramatist's craft, and to help our members hone their skills;
* to build the theatre audiences of the future.

Staging new plays that focus on and challenge modern times. Zeitgeist Theatre produces issue-driven, thought-provoking new writing that is relevant to people's lives. This is unpretentious theatre that challenges, reflects and focuses on modern times. Our aim is to relate this to an audience in an engaging, entertaining and creative way. We believe theatre can change the world, not just interpret it.

The commissioning and development of new plays has been an important part of The REP's work since 1998. with schemes such as the Attachment programme for playwrights and the Transmissions project for young writers. These programmes have provided hundreds of writers at different stages in their careers the resources and mentoring to develop their work.

The Bush is a world-famous home for new plays and an internationally renowned champion of playwrights. We discover, nurture and produce the best new playwrights from the widest range of backgrounds, and present their work to the highest possible standards. We look for exciting new voices that tell contemporary stories with wit, style and passion and we champion work that is both provocative and entertaining.

At the beating heart of the theatre's renaissance is our work with writers; since it is our passionate belief that an investment in new writing is an investment in our theatrical future. Our mission is to nurture and develop the playwrights who will represent's the city's talent, its voice and unique energy.

The multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre - led by Artistic Director Neil McPherson - presents both plays and music theatre, concentrated exclusively on new writing and rediscoveries of neglected work from 19th and 20th centuries. We also run a vibrant literary department and a resident assistant director programme.

Hampstead Theatre exists to take risks and to discover the talent of the future. New writing is our passion. We consistently create the best conditions for writers to flourish and are rewarded with diverse award-winning and far-reaching plays.

The New Writing scheme is part of their Artistic Policy that is currently working towards producing a large amount of new work over the next 5 years, so far this scheme is well underway, with a world premiere of 3-1-6 by Euan Roase in 2006, also Blue on Blue by Derek Lister. For both of these productions existing scripts were taken and the commissioned for development. They have also launched writer's workshops that allow collaborations, with their Artistic director and co-founder of the company

HighTide Festival Theatre, an engine room for new writing has passionately placed playwrights at the heart of our Suffolk festivals for 6 years and we continue to commit to the development, production and advocacy for exceptional new voices in the UK and internationally.

New writing is the lifeblood of Hull Truck Theatre. Since being founded by Mike Bradwell in the 1970s, Hull Truck has had - unusually for a regional producing theatre - an exclusive focus on the work of living playwrights and contemporary theatre-makers.
As we enter the next 40 years of the company's life, it's vital that we continue to discover, nurture and develop playwrights and their plays.

Live Theatre aims to produce the best new work by writers from and/or living in the North East of England.
Committed to helping people achieve their ambitions Live Theatre offers support and advice to writers of all abilities -from first-time writers to successful playwrights. Live Theatre also runs a series of events, courses and workshops for all aspiring writers to listen and take part in.

NVT was founded in 1947. For ten years the company was nomadic, performing in a wide variety of halls and theatres. In 1956, it took a lease on the first floor of Christchurch Schoolrooms, Bedford Place -- when its 100-seater proscenium arch theatre was built. In 1983 the trustees of the company decided to buy the freehold of the premises and added an 80-seater studio theatre on the ground floor. In the autumn of 1999, the third main space in the building -- the South Hall -- was refurbished. Apart from being a more inviting place for members and audiences to meet and enjoy drinks from the bar, the new South Hall is also used as a cabaret-type venue. NVT is a community theatre, committed not only to achieving the highest standards on stage, but also to cultivating original work.

We will offer a varied artistic programme throughout the year with classics, new writing, musicals and a traditional family pantomime. Expect to see a mixture of faces you'll recognise as well as ones that you won't (just yet)!
In Park 200 we will produce a number of in-house productions as well as receive work from external companies.
In Park 90 we will predominantly develop and nurture emerging artists.
Innovation will play an important part in our shows, too. We will use interactive digital technology to create a more involving experience for a twenty-first century audience.

The Playwrights' Studio, Scotland is a national organisation which directly engages the people of Scotland with new playwriting and raises the standard of plays for presentation to the public. It celebrates, promotes and develops Scotland's rich and growing culture of writing for live performance; improving and sustaining artistic quality, raising awareness, and increasing access to new playwriting.

The Royal Exchange Theatre is passionate about discovering and producing the very best of new writing. As of 2009, the Royal Exchange will have premiered 125 new plays or adaptations in its history, and since the re-launch of the Royal Exchange Studio in 2002 as a home to the new, our association with contemporary playwrights goes from strength to strength.

New Writing is central to the work of Sherman Cymru. We are committed to giving opportunities to fresh voices and new visions which reflect the diversity of our communities, always seeking to discover, nurture and invest in Welsh talent, be it raw or refined! We are proud to work with writers both in Welsh and English and are dedicated to developing and producing plays of the highest quality for the stage.

In 2010 the theatre wants to continue working with writers from the local area and beyond, and offering challenging new plays to our audience. With this in mind we would like to invite writers to join our new 2010 season of the Brockley Jack Writers' Workshop, or to consider submitting short scripts or extracts for consideration for our monthly Scratch nights.

We accept unsolicited scripts, and we would love to see your work, whatever style or genre, as long as it is a complete, full theatrical play. We are looking for complete plays: we don't have the resources for development or intensive workshops, so please only send us your play if it is finished, complete and you are happy for it to go on stage immediately.
Please submit your script electronically to our Literary Manager, Anna Thomson, on the address below. We are committed to preserving the resources of writers, as well as saving on paper, which is why we only accept electronic submissions. Please do not send us anything by post! If it gets to a stage where we need to print the script, we'll do that for you.

The Kings Cross New Writing Award 2013
The Courtyard is delighted to announce that the 7th King's Cross Award for New Writing is formally being launched on 7th January 2013, and entries will be accepted between then and the closing date of 30th April 2013.
The Award, which is open to writers of all levels of experience resident in the UK or Republic of Ireland, seeks imaginative, original work, which explores the unique possibilities of writing for the stage. Scripts must be unpublished and currently unperformed.

The Octagon is committed to developing new writing. We aim to give our audience the chance to see outstanding original work performed in Bolton before they are seen anywhere else in the world.
The Octagon has always been committed to new writing. Over the past four years the Theatre has produced eleven new plays, including five as part of a highly successful fortieth anniversary season in 2007-08. In the 2010-2011 season, the Theatre will be presenting three World Premieres - visit our What's On pages to find out more about or programme of produced work.
Over the past two years we have expanded our approach to new writing. It is not simply a case of commissioning and presenting new work, but we work directly with writers from throughout the North West. These activities and initiatives are co-ordinated and led by the Octagon's Associate Director Elizabeth Newman, who is also the Head of the New Writing department at the Octagon.

The Literary Department is the first port of call for work coming into Theatre503. Working closely with the other departments, we read submitted scripts, form relationships with writers, and offer dramaturgical support to work that is produced and developed in the theatre.

Now concentrating exclusively on new playwriting, initiatives such as the South London Playwriting Festival were launched, giving an invaluable platform to works by both new and established writers ...

The Palace commissions, develops and produces original contemporary plays for our Edwardian proscenium arch theatre. We aim to develop inclusive, accessible plays about the way we live, with the depth and ambition to attract excellent actors, and the potential to change the way we look at things.
We invest time, skill and resources in the development of scripts, and hope to create work of lasting quality which may have a life beyond our stage.

Find out here about the Playhouse''s commitment to developing new writing and writers. Be part of an audience viewing brand new work in progress. Develop your own writing skills whether you are a first timer or an experienced writer.

We are your official, one-stop-shop for literally thousands of free television and radio audience tickets to the very best entertainment, music, comedy, chat, sitcom, reality & award shows produced at many different studios and locations all around the world.

Clappers Ltd is an independently owned Television Audience company founded in 1993 by Frances Fuller who managed the ticket office for Thames Television. With her vast experience and a list of organisations and viewers both in the South, East and West of England gained over many years and updated regularly, Clappers offers a first class services for all kinds of shows from sit-coms to stand up comedy, from quiz to music shows. They also design flyers and posters to advertise shows and have a vast pool of personnel that can seat audiences at the studios or off site. So, if you wish to see your favourite stars and be part of making the world's best television just click the Shows button.

Here you can request audience tickets for all our great shows ranging from Have I Got News For You to The Armstrong and Miller Show. Simply click on the listed shows on the left hand side to see what?s coming up. Also register to keep up to date on all your favourite shows, we'll tell you about new projects, series, pilots, try-outs and when booking is due to open.

With over 18 years experience, SRO Audiences, the UK's premier television tickets company, is delighted to continue to offer the outstanding service for which we have always been known. We have worked on shows as diverse as So Graham Norton, The Vicar of Dibley, They Think It's All Over, Birds of a Feather, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Coupling, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, The Charlotte Church Show, Most Haunted Live, The IT Crowd, Live At The Apollo and Mock the Week as well as special events such as An Audience with Donny & Marie, The British Soap Opera Awards & The National Movie Awards!

Since 1999 TVRecordings.com have been getting you closer to the shows you love. We have given away free tickets to some of the countries biggest TV and radio shows including Harry Hill?s TV Burp, Al Murray?s Happy Hour, 8 out of 10 Cats and The Frank Skinner Show. We allow you to watch your favourite shows recorded live and unedited. You can be the first to witness the hilarious out-takes and even take part in the show.
We have also consistently given you access to the best in cutting edge new comedy with hit shows such as Edinburgh and Beyond, Banter and Out To Lunch as well as exclusive access to brand new pilots and one off specials.

Our main target is to provide a guide to every UK television and radio comedy programme (all genres, both past and present). However, you'll find more than just comedy guides on this site - we also have TV & radio listings; a news feed; a popular message board; various features; a DVD shop; an area for comedy writers; and much more

Whether you're a keen writer, or a producer, editor or talent scout, looking for writers, we'd love you to join us in spirit by becoming a member or subscriber, or in reality at one of our events - for a gin and a joke, a lager and a laugh.

Chortle was set up by journalist Steve Bennett in February 2000 with the aim of being the most comprehensive, critical and up-to-date guide to the all aspects of comedy in Britain. Today, the site is the premier source of comedy news, reviews and listings and attracts around 120,000 unique visitors every month.

An Arvon residential writing course provides a nurturing environment where newcomers can begin writing, and existing writers can expand their skills and hone their craft. With expert tuition and the support and encouragement of a writing community, all our participants experience an irresistible chemistry of collective enthusiasm and individual breakthrough.

The MA and MFA (Master of Fine Arts) Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media are vocational courses in writing drama across a range of media: television, film, theatre and radio. They provide the opportunity for you to develop your writing abilities and learn the key techniques used by professional writers.

I teach comedy writing and performing in Central London. I also work one-to-one with students and gigging stand ups, and run distance-learning programmes for those outside London. I teach at City Lit and privately. I have run workshops for the BBC and Channel 4. I run a range of courses covering stand up, sketch comedy and comedy writing.

Creatively stimulating, challenging, and above all practical, this innovative full-time two year course provides a supportive and thought-provoking environment for playwrights and screenwriters to explore their ideas, develop their craft, and finish a full-length work to a high standard.

This is a one-day course that concentrates on writing sitcom, and finding the right producer to send your script to. Dave Cohen has been writing and performing comedy for a living for 25 years. He was nominated for the Perrier Award in 1984, and co-founded the Comedy Store Players with Paul Merton and Mike Myers. He has written for dozens of radio and TV shows ... He is a regular writer on Have I Got News For You, and has written five series of his hit Radio 4 series 15 Minute Musicals.

A hot course, quick feedback, early drafts, final drafts, delivering the know how, right now, on what all good playwrights know and do.
Euphoric Ink is the word on plays - from how to conceive them, write them, structure them, and improve them, to how you might move them from the page to the stage. Euphoric Ink is a playwriting consultancy that provides you with the sharpest tools in the box.
Euphoric Ink playwriting classes are: rigorous, precise, in-depth, clear, practical, accessible, instantly applicable and excellent - helping you to write good theatre.
Good theatre is a euphoric experience.

This is a well-established, highly successful programme with specialist pathways in Dramaturgy and Playwriting.
It concentrates on the process of writing for live performance, together with an ongoing evaluation of the work in process. Through practice and reflection, we enable you to establish a distinctive, individual creative approach.
We support the development of texts for performance, alongside an intellectual understanding of the diverse contexts in which live performance can be made. We examine texts from a wide range of periods and cultures. We engage with work that is innovative, or which challenges established notions of practice.
Dramaturgs and playwrights study side by side, and examine creative and dramaturgical issues from various perspectives as writers, spectators and creative collaborators.

Jack Milner's Comedy Workshops raise confidence; hone skills to provide a unique and rewarding training experience ... Jack is also a successful comedy director, writer and producer in his own right with scores of radio and TV credits. He is the founder of the renowned London Comedy Writers group.

Jan presents all our weekend courses, sharing her experience and "things I wish I'd known, when I started out, 20 years ago". With her writing partner, Gavin Petrie, she created a string of successful television and radio comedies and believes "many people have a talent for writing humour, but lack the experience of pulling it all together."

This course is for aspiring and experienced playwrights, performance writers and dramaturgs who are keen to establish their unique voice in response to recent innovations in contemporary theatre and performance. While the course acknowledges the continuing centrality of a particular dramatic tradition that was first articulated by Aristotle, it also recognises that once 'alternative' forms such as visual and physical theatre, live art and postmodern performance have equal validity in contemporary culture. We believe that writers have an important role driving such movements, and in forging the theatrical forms of tomorrow.

90% of sitcom scripts are rejected. Why? Often this is down to simple form and formatting errors. Sitcom is one of the most lucrative forms of TV writing and yet time after time script editors are given a hundred excuses to bin your hard work.
How NOT To Write A Sitcom, a new one-day workshop from Marc Blake, aims to iron out these problems.

Masterclass aims to offer young people exceptional creative opportunities and experiences with leaders of the theatre industry. A year-round programme of talks, workshops, special projects and career advice is intended to give people insight into all aspects of theatre from writing and directing to acting and producing. Masterclass strives to provide all the events for free, so that people of all abilities, status and background can be inspired by and learn from masters of the craft.

The New Voices Club is an ongoing professional development programme for actors, directors, writers and producers, aged 18-25, living in London. We also run a sister programme in New York, the New Voices Network, for 21 to 30 year old practitioners. Members must demonstrate an exceptional talent, a deep commitment to a career in theatre and a passion for peer collaboration.

We are Plot Bunnies Pro, a critiquing and editing service based in Brighton on the south coast of England ... Our names are Dawn Laker and Lawrence Meeran ... Plot Bunnies Pro was set up because we saw a need for a critiquing and editing service that was based on good, honest feedback and professional editing ... Plot Bunnies Pro is a spin-off of our writers' circle, Brighton Plot Bunnies ...

This course is designed for aspiring playwrights, dramaturgs, and those teachers, directors, actors and more who want to gain an intensive, practical understanding of playwriting from the inside. It is an opportunity to enhance skills in writing for performance in a variety of contexts and to develop and write a play. The course ranges widely across different forms of writing for performance, from stage to radio, the single-authored play to writing for devised work and live art. This programme also enables students to undertake advanced research in theatre and performance, participate in independent and group-based practical projects, and critically explore the history and theory of theatre and performance. All students complete an dissertation, which allows them to further develop their own areas of specialist interest.

Stephen Jeffreys' weekend masterclass is designed to be stimulating, entertaining and career-changing for the experienced playwright and beginner alike. It will also be accessible and useful for directors, actors, literary managers and people involved in all aspects of
creative theatre making.

The John Burgess Play Writing Course is a one-year London-based writing course for aspirant professional playwrights run by renowned theatre director and former Head of New Writing at the National Theatre, John Burgess.
You might be just starting out or you might be looking for a mid-career change. You might be looking to refresh your playwriting skills or acquire new ones. You might have worked in theatre already or you might be coming to it from the outside. You might be a teacher or an already published writer or you might never have written anything in your life before. Whatever your circumstances this course has something for you.

Now, Every 1's A Critic are launching their own sitcom showcase - The Sitcom Mission. With an emphasis on script development, The Sitcom Mission is looking for 15-minute, stageable sitcom scripts. The best of them will be workshopped with actors and directors, and the top 16 will go through to the knock-out contest in front of a public audience and showcased for the industry at a central London venue in Spring 2010, with industry judges deciding which sitcoms will go through to the Grand Final.

The Sitcom Trials is the stage and TV show where sitcoms compete head to head and the audience vote for their favourite. Started in London & Bristol in 1999, the Trials has enjoyed three years at the Edinburgh Fringe, toured nationally and internationally including Hollywood, and its first TV series ran for eight weeks on ITV1. The stage show now runs at London's Leicester Square Theatre, with the audience voting alongside a panel of experts from the broadcast and comedy industries.

Whether you want to perform stand-up, write sketches, or create a sitcom, We will help give you the skills, confidence and experience you need. Our workshops take place in a relaxed and supportive environment, and they'll both motivate and inspire you!

A leading UK comedy specialist - in writing, teaching and performing. COURSES and WORKSHOPS designed to motivate people of all ages, types and backgrounds to get up (or even lie in bed) and be funny. His philosophy is, if he can do it, so can you. And that being funny is good for you.

MA in Drama and Performance Studies (PLAYWRITING STRAND New 2012)
?This Playwriting Strand offers you the opportunity to analyse, explore, and reflect on modern and contemporary theatre and performance in theory and practice.

This is Britain's leading programme dedicated to the craft of the dramatist. It was founded by internationally renowned playwright Professor David Edgar and is now convened by professional playwright Fraser Grace.

The MA in Play Writing allows you to develop your interest in writing drama for a variety of contexts. Students take writing workshops to enhance writing practice along with modules that examine the work of innovative playwrights of the 20th and 21st century. You are encouraged to undertake collaborative writing practices and writing for specific purposes. Students submit their own play with a supportive portfolio of reflective writing and are encouraged to challenge themselves and their assumptions. The course embraces both traditional and experimental creative writing for performance.

The MA offers a unique approach to the practice of writing, with an emphasis on innovation and experiment. A wide variety of courses concentrate on deepening students??? knowledge of literary tradition and different modes and genres in order to develop practical skills of expression and invention. With planned readings and writing exercises in class, students expand their techniques as well as critical judgement of their own work.

Our unique Theatre Practice postgraduate programmes cover practice-based work in theatre and can be taken either as an MA, full-time over 1 year or part-time over 2 years.
The MA Theatre Practice is divided into a number of flexible pathways. You can specialise in an area of your choice by following a specific pathway, select modules from different pathways to tailor an individual programme, or even take a module from outside Drama to complement the range of enquiry. All pathways are taught by leading academics in one of the largest and best equipped Drama departments in the country.

The Masters in Playwriting & Dramaturgy gives you a practical and theoretical engagement with the many forms of writing and production for theatre. The programme is designed for those wishing to develop playwriting skills and knowledge of script development and support, opening the way to many theatre roles, including dramaturgy.

This practice-based programme develops students' playwriting alongside the skills of script reading and script editing.
It sets out to work with new playwrights and develop their playwriting alongside the specific skills and knowledge required for working in a theatreā??s literary department as a script reader and script editor. The course is run in partnership with the Broadway Theatre, London, and in the second semester students are attached to the theatre to develop the writing of emerging playwrights while continuing to produce their own work. A practice-based programme, students will be working on their own plays throughout the course, building to a substantial final degree show in the summer.

Promoting and supporting female playwrights. I [Sam Hall] am a female playwright. On my MA course in playwriting, around 90% of the students were female, however, recent number crunching suggests that only 17% of practising playwrights are female (from studies in mainstream and fringe theatre in the UK and USA). Where do all these well-qualified potential female playwrights go? Why don't they make the transition from student to performed playwright? Is there an industry bias - and why does it matter if there is?

I'm a drama graduate who eats, breathes and sleeps theatre - including being a performer, a facilitator, an Equity member, a circus enthusiast, and a reviewer. Read my reviews, trials and tribulations via this weekly blog.

Theatre through the eyes of a younger generation.
We aim to be a response to theatre, to give a younger perspective upon events, shows, and concepts. We don't proclaim to be anything other than a younger generation with a passion for one thing: Theatre [and the arts]

I [Becky Middleton] am a London-based freelance journalist with over six years of experience in writing for local and national newspapers, writing for websites, creating multimedia content and photography.

Julie Raby. My main interest is Theatre, especially Shakespeare ... I love travelling to see different productions and am now finding seeing the same production more than once is a really rewarding experience ... I decided to move by blog to Between the Acts which is the title of a novel by Virginia Woolf and gave more of the impression that I was writing between viewing -- between the acts.

Blanche Marvin, has been involved for over 50 years in writing, directing and producing theatre in London and in New York which has given her a unique approach to reviewing London theatre and transfers to New York or visa versa. Her depth of knowledge, and experience make her a most practical plus influential reviewer on the theatre scene in London today.

The British Theatre Guide began life in April 1997 as the Mining Company British Theatre site, later changing to the About.com site, About British Theatre. About.com closed the site in September 2001 as part of its restructuring after its merger with Primedia and so Peter Lathan, who had run the site from the beginning, decided, under pressure from many regular visitors, to re-establish it under its present name and in its present location.

Culture Wars is the online review of the Institute of Ideas in London. We cover books, films, theatre, art and talk events, with a view to understanding how political and other ideas filter through the culture, and how the arts in turn influence politics and society more generally. We also publish essays, interviews and other articles on the arts, culture and society.

I [Annette Chown] decided to start this blog because I wanted to write about what was happening in Performing Arts, in the South West. I also wanted to showcase some of the people on the scene and behind the scenes making it all happen.

everything theatre is a down-to-earth blog about enjoying the London theatre scene, without all the pomp and circumstance. We love theatre, but we don???t work in theatre; none of us really know what we talking about in artistic terms, but we put our opinions about the productions we see on here! We also publish interviews with people we find interesting, a few bits of random trivia and some opinion pieces when we feel particularly strongly about something.

About Exeunt
How we approach things:
1. To refine and redefine the notion of quality criticism.
2. In the spirit of Mamet's 'general audience', and Hare's 'middle way' to provide insight and comment for an intelligent, interested, theatre-going public.
3. To recognise that much of the best theatre writing exists on the web. To document the changing role of the critic, from guardian, to curator, to scheduler, to filter, to friend. To show that far from undermining the profession, the web's multiplicity of voices schooled in various experiences, is a catalyst for theatre criticisms' renewal.
4. To believe that theatre can actually tell us something about the world. To diminish insularity, disinterestedness, and theatre for theatre's sake. To return a sense of cultural and political futures to theatre criticism.
5. To cultivate an interface between the reader and the academy. To provide jargon free, non-reductive, translations of the latest academic thinking
6. As paywalls and paid-apps steadily enclose, to return a sense of editorial optimism to the free-web. That far from Babel, the free-web represents the best opportunity to present a networked, dynamic, cultural resource.
7. To return any profits into the website and to the contributors.

Semi-professional writer, actor and humorist. I created and performed the first show based on a blog at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London Comedy Festival in 2004. I'm also an avid theatre-goer with reviews that have been quoted in TIME magazine. By day I'm a digital and direct marketing professional. www.google.com/profiles/DevonDudgeon

Fringe Report is based in London, United Kingdom. We review fringe theatre, arts, independent and arthouse film, dance, performance, poetry, music - anything that falls off the edge of the mainstream, though we often cover that too, there are no rigid lines.

Having trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama I [Glen] have worked as a Stage Manager, Lighting designer, box office, front of house and in theatre management. So I know the challenges faced by the theatre industry but will pull no punches.

London Theatre Blog was founded by Andrew Eglinton in late 2005 while completing an MA course in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College. Currently based in London, Andrew is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching documentary drama; he also works at Rose Bruford College.

Want to enjoy live shows - drama, comedy, musicals, dance, opera, music and other live performance - in London, UK, with friendly folk?
Like the idea of a FREE group where members suggest shows to see, name a place, date and time to meet, book their own tickets and meet up before and after the show for a drink and/or something to eat?
Then this group is for you!
All events are free to attend - no subscription fee and no attendance fee.
Members choose and buy their own tickets except for TV and radio recordings which are free! We also share information about cut-price ticket offers.

I am an Edinburgh-based freelance journalist and critic specialising in theatre and the arts. My feature writing covers celebrity interviews, human interest stories, restaurant reviews, travel articles and opinion pieces, as well as theatre, music and art reviews. Publications I write for include The Guardian, Scotland on Sunday, the Sunday Times, The Herald and The Scotsman. From 2000-2003, I was the editor of The List magazine, Glasgow and Edinburgh's arts and events guide. See my website for more information and comprehensive Scottish theatre links.

"the gross and scope of my opinion ..." Hamlet I,1. Any live entertainment is fair game. The core of the blog is my work for the Chelmsford Weekly News, plus [in blue] any further thoughts from me, comments from you [in red], contributions from anyone else [in green], and the occasional piece from the archives [in brown] please do comment and contribute !

No self-indulgent campery. No freebie tickets. No wallowing in the luvvieness of it all. No TV interviews. No being quoted in newspapers. No hob-knobbing with "celebrity friends". Just decently written theatre reviews!

London is a city rich in traditions of drama, music and performance arts, and it is a centre of excellence in art education, publishing, and theatre ... and other centres and institutions which pursue the arts to the highest standards of excellence.
ONLINE REVIEW LONDON reviews the best of this great resource, and in addition provides links to associated internet resources, giving the texts of copyright-free plays, information about performers and theatres, links to relevant associated sites, and more.

Aleks Sierz is author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), The Theatre of Martin Crimp (Methuen, 2006) and John Osborne?s Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008). A journalist, broadcaster and theatre critic at large, he is also Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College and teaches postwar British theatre at the London branch of Boston University.

remotegoat is an entirely free service and anyone can list upcoming events, gigs and shows. To get started you'll need to register, but once you've completed this simple process you'll be able to list upcoming events, shows and gigs. Once registered you can add a new event and your posting should be live within minutes. You can also use the remotegoat system to share event information with over 200 other publications, ensuring you list your details only once.
remotegoat also supports a team of over 200 reviewers, who will be happy to review your show if you are seeking a little extra publicity.

By day I'm a business journalist by night I'm a cinema and theatre fan. I like most films although I do see more foreign and independent movies these days. That said I still love a popcorn movie every now and again. I'm a Twilight fan, a Harry Potter fan and a LOTR's fan for instance. And then there is theatre. Re-discovered my love of theatre about four years ago and have been going a lot since. I'll watch pretty much anything from something performed on a stage the size of a tea tray in a village hall to the West End.
Everything in fact, except musicals. They just aren't for me.

I get dragged to the theatre regularly and I'll be posting my thoughts on the goodies, the baddies and the downright bloody awfuls here. There will be fear and trembling in London's West End as I sharpen my knife and prepare to expound. Expect nothing but my uninformed opinions.

The smart, definitive guide to what's on in London
There are thousands of events each week in London and they are as varied and unique as the city's residents and visitors. Spoonfed helps you sort through all of these events quickly and easily. At Spoonfed, you get truly localised event details, reviews by critics, artists, musicians and performers, and social organisation tools to keep you and your friends up to date and in the know.

The Bardathon is Pete Kirwan's academic theatre review blog. This is an experiment in reviewing practice designed to combine the principles of academic reviewing with the immediate reactions of a journalistic format. Originally begun as a chronicle of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival, I review productions of (or based on) any early modern drama. Please comment with your own views and thoughts!

South-African-born Mark Shenton is a theatre critic and journalist. He came to the UK aged 16 and read Law at Cambridge University. He writes a daily blog for The Stage as well as being reviewer for the Sunday Express.

For better, for worse I'm not a teenager any more so my moniker is going to have to change a touch. Gone is the "Teenage Theatre Critic", to be replaced by the "Tyro Theatre Critic" (a simple way of keeping my acronym and tyro makes me seem mildly intellectual which is always a bonus).

We regularly commission our team of experienced writers to write exclusive reviews of Welsh productions and performances by outside companies in Wales for the web site, as well as reproducing items that have appeared in other sources. We also review selected productions in the rest of the UK where they have a relevance to the theatre sector in Wales

This blog is kept by me, Alison Croggon, a writer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. I am presently Melbourne theatre reviewer for The Australian and irregularly review books for ABC Radio National's The Book Show. Between 1989 and 1992 I was Melbourne theatre reviewer for The Bulletin. In 2009, I was named Geraldine Pascall Critic of the Year for my work on this blog and in the Australian.

Hello, I'm Brenda Kean and I would like to share my love of theatre, films and music with you. On these pages you may find my reivew about Theatrical productions that I have personally seen. Do go along to the shows and experience them for yourself. Nothing beats live theatre.

Theatrevoice is the leading site for audio content about British theatre, and features journalists from across the UK press and practitioners from across the theatre industry. It was set up in 2003 to see if theatre could be talked about in a new way: allowing critics to be more expansive than the usual space constraints of the print media allowed; to enable actors, writers, directors and designers to be heard talking in detail and at length about their work; and to help members of the public interact more directly with theatre-makers and commentators ... Theatrevoice was established by Dominic Cavendish (founding editor), with the close support of David Benedict and Rachel Halliburton, as well as Aleks Sierz (co-editor since Sept 2006) and Mark Shenton.
It was designed by Ben Neale from The Marvellous Media Company.

What we do . . .
We offer authoritative, independent London theatre reviews. We also cover London's fringe and some theatre outside London, notably the annual Edinburgh Festival. We list upcoming shows and offer insiders' hints on saving money on theatre tickets. Whether you go to the theatre every evening or are planning a single night out, whether you already know what you like or want help choosing a show, TheatreguideLondon's reviews of past and current London shows are for you!

Welcome to my [Honour Bayes] blog - anything I write here should be taken with a pinch of salt please. I want more than anything for you to take it all in, swirl it around a bit, decide if it suits your taste buds and then come back with some comments - positive or otherwise.
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The UK Theatre Network is a social network and online magazine for the performing arts industry. The UK Theatre Network carries news and features, as well as national and regional theatre listings and reviews guide, along with details of auditions and industry jobs.

Recognized and respected through out the world of show business, Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for timely, credible and straight forward news and analysis - information vital to their professions.

On my travels to work or fun I've often thought to myself 'doesn't that person look great, I love their style' and wanted to tell them, because having a random person say something like that would give a little lift to their day. This blog is a collection of these moments. I'm also a bit of a theatre fan as I used to be a go-go dancer.. well dancer anyway. I write for thepublicreviews.com and will be posting my reviews on here too.

The core in-house editorial team at Whatsonstage.com is led by editorial director Terri Paddock and deputy editor Theo Bosanquet. Our chief critic and contributing editor is Michael Coveney and house photographer is Dan Wooller. The in-house team is supplemented by the editors for our regional and specialist sections, whose biographies will be added shortly, as well as our newly appointed theatregoer reporters. There are also a number of regular additional contributors to the regional and Off-West End sections.